Combination tool-chest and hand-box



J. M. MAUK.

COMBINATION TOOL CHEST AND HAND BOX.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, ms.

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I. M. MAUK. COMBINATION TOOL CHEST AND HAND BOX.

APPLICATION mm MAY22,1915.

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'ATTORNEY JAMES M. MAUK, or BE'II-IEL, KANSAS.

COMBINATION TOOL-CHEST AND HAND-BOX.

Application filed May 22, 1915.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. MAUK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bethel, in the county of VVyandotte and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Tool-Chests and Hand-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combination tool chest and hand box, and one object of the invention is to provide a tool chest with a re movable hand box in which sufficient tools for ordinary job work can be readily carried without taking the tool chest.

A further object is to provide novel means for holding one or more hand saws in the tool chest.

Other objects of the invention will hereinafter appear, and in order that the invention may be fully understood, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete device in closed position. Fig. 2 is a broken detail section, enlarged, on line II of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a broken detail section on line III-III of Fig. 1, with the hand saw removed. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the device partly in section with its lid open. Fig. 5 is a detail of the hand box detached from the tool chest. Fig. 6 is a broken inverted plan view of part of the tool box handle. Fig. 7 is a broken section on line VII-VII of Fig. 41.

In carrying out the invention, I employ a tool chest 1, to the interior of which access may be had through an opening in an upper corner adapted to be closed by a lid 2. Lid 2 is secured to one side of the tool chest 1 with hinges 3 and is provided with a lock 1 whereby it may be secured in closed position. The lock 4 is assisted in securing the lid in closed position by clips 5, certain members of which are fixed to the top of the tool chest 1. The top of the tool chest 1 is provided with a handle 6 whereby it may be carried from place to place.

The interior of the lid 2 is provided with means for holding a number of hand saws such as A. Said means embodies a plurality of turn-buttons 7, 8, 9 and 10, and a block 11, which latter has slits 11 to receive the reduced ends of the saw blades. The turn-buttons are pivotally mounted upon a bolt 12 and are of such size as to enter the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1916.

Serial No. 29,814.

handle openings B of the saws when adjusted longitudinally of said openings and to engage the sides of the handles when adjusted transversely thereof, see Fig. 4. The turn-buttons 7, 8, and 9 are each slightly thicker than the handles of the saws, hence if but one saw is to be held in place the turn button 7 is adjusted to enter the handle opening B, while the turn-button 8 is adjusted transversely to said handle to hold it against the interior side of the lid 2. If two saws are to be held in place the turn-buttons 7 and 8 are adjusted to enter the handle openings B, while the turn-button 9 is ad usted transversely to said openings to engage and hold the handle of the adjacent saw. If three saws are to be held in place the turn-buttons 7, 8 and 9 are adjusted to enter the handle openings B while the turnbutton 10 is adjusted to engage the adjacent saw handle. Thus it will be readily understood that one or more saws can be firmly held in place within the tool chest 1.

13 designates a hand box detachably secured to the bottom of the tool chest 1 by a pair of bail members 14, which engage the longitudinal sides of said tool chest 2 and the hand box 13, as disclosed by Fig. 1, to prevent independent lateral movement of said hand box 13. The hand box 13 is also held from independent longitudinal move ment by the bail members 14:, which are bent to engage the ends 1 of the tool chest 1 and converge toward their upper ends where they are bent at right angles, as indicated at 14*, to pass through holes 15 in the upper portions of said ends 1 The lower ends of the bail members 1 1 are pivotally mounted upon pivots 16, projecting from the sides of the hand box 13. The upper ends of the bail members 1 1 terminate in eyes 17, to receive pins 18, whereby they are reliably held from coming out of the holes 15.

. The pins 18 are suspended from the inner top side of the tool chest 1 by chains 19 and have bent ends 20 adapted to be held by the lid 2 in grooves 21 in the adjacent edges of the upper portion of the tool chest 1, Fig. 2. This arrangement reliably holds the bail members 1 1 from accidentally coming out of the holes 15 and allowing the tool box 13 to fall from the tool chest 1 while the same is being carried.

When sufiicient tools can be carried in the hand box 13 with which to perform a job of work, said tool box 13 is detached from the bottom of the tool chest 1 by removing the pins 18 and swinging the bail members 14 outward until their eyes 17 pass out through the holes 15. The tool chest 1 is then lifted from the hand box after which the bail members 14 are swung toward each other and their eyes 17 are passed through holes 22 in the ends of a handle 23, provided at its under side with pivoted hooks 24, adapted to enter the eyes 17 and prevent them from passing outward through the holes 22. When not in use the handle 23 is carried in the hand box 13.

From the foregoing description, it is apparent that I have produced a simple and convenient device for carpenters and other mechanics who are frequently called out on job work requiring only a few tools, and while I have shown and described the preferred form of my invention, I reserve the right to make such changes in the combination, construction, and arrangement of parts as properly fall within the spirit and scope of the claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In combination, a tool chest, a hand box adapted to fit against said tool chest, bail members operably secured to said hand box and provided with eyes adapted to pass through openings in the tool chest, and

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the means in said tool chest for engaging said eyes, for the purpose described.

2. In combination, a tool chest, a hand box adapted to fit against said tool chest, bail members operably secured to said hand box and provided with eyes adapted to pass through openings in the tool chest, pins to engage said eyes, and a lid on the tool chest adapted to hold said pins in engagement with the eyes.

3. In combination, a tool chest, a hand box adapted to fit against the bottom of said tool chest, upwardly converging metallic bail members pivoted to the sides of said hand box and adapted to engage the sides and ends of the tool chest, means for removably securing said bail members to the tool chest, and a handle for attachment to said bail members when the same are removed from the tool chest.

4. In combination, a tool chest, a block secured in said tool chest and having slits to receive the free ends of hand saw blades, and turnbuttons pivotally mounted within the tool chest and adapted to enter the handle openings of the saws or be adjusted transversely thereto, for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES M. MAUK.

Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

